In the words of the notorious Queenslander Pauline Hansen: "Please explain!"

SOA is a new approach to designing business systems making changes easier using the internet also known as web processes.

IT people say the System Architecture is “built to change” rather than previous “built to last” models. 

Surely built to last is a good thing?

Yes – if everything stays the same in business. Unfortunately the only constant is change with currency, competition, global this and that. Therefore businesses processes must be changed and with old technology that’s where the problems start.

So how does SOA make change easier?

Let’s look at this analogy... We all remember tape cassettes — pre-recorded with songs. When we wanted to hear our favourite song we had to fast forward or scroll back to find the song. We now think of this as cumbersome. Our next technology leap was to a CD Stacker with the ability to select any CD out of the stack and any tune on any CD at the click of a button. Today we expect our 100% SOA ERP business environment to be as easy to change and as flexible to use as an iPod is for our favourite songs & podcasts.

So SOA makes it easier for my ERP business software to change when we do?

Absolutely! Talk to COGITA about the latest Vantage from Epicor — 100% SOA software for manufacturing and distribution businesses.